Adrien sat down and picked up a spiky ball, placing it gently on the palm of one hand. "Wow", he whispered. "Can we take them home?".

"Sure", Valerion said; he took the bag off his shoulders, placed it on the ground in front of himself, and opened it. He drew out a smaller cloth bag, which he unrolled and smoothed out. "Good thing I brought this", he smiled, his head slightly tilted. "Just put them in, and we'll open them later".

Adrien placed the bur into the bag; then he started walking towards another chestnut to collect, but stopped midway. He turned around: "Should I pick them up with my bare hands?", he said, raising one eyebrow. "Probably not, right?".

"Let me cast a protective spell on you", Valerion said. "Just show me your palms", he said as he stood up. Adrien walked towards him and showed him his hands; with both his index fingers, Valerion began to draw a circle on each of Adrien's hands - but Adrien giggled and pulled back.

"Aaah! That tickles!", he laughed, scratching his hands.

"Sorry, sorry", Valerion chuckled. "I can't do much about that - you'd have to cast your own defense against tickling", he laughed.

Adrien laughed and showed his hands again; then he tried to hold his breath as Valerion drew his spell one more time - and Adrien still giggled and squirmed a bit, but this time the circles lit up on his hands; the spell was successful. Valerion drew two circles on his own hands as well, then he kneeled down again.

"Alright, let's see if we can fill this bag".